Burdwan, Aug. 8: The body of church priest William Kauri, 55, who went missing on Saturday, was found beside the railway tracks near Bainchi station in Hooghly last evening. The body bore several bleeding injuries.

Kauri, from Talcher in Orissa, lives in a rented house here. “He went out on Saturday afternoon to look for a house. Then he was supposed to visit the secretary of the church managing committee, Pradip Biswas. He was disturbed over some dispute over the church-owned lands,” said Malina, his wife.

Calcutta: Advocate-general Balai Ray has filed a compliance report before Justice P.K. Roy of the high court and said his government had started paying retirement benefits to more than 1,100 employees of North Bengal State Transport Corporation.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the state and the Sunderbans Development Board maintain status quo on the scheme to block river Hukaharaniya in the Sunderbans biosphere reserve at its two ends.

The Haryana Union of Journalists will provide free homoeopathic aid to all journalists in the state. The union’s president, Mr K.B. Pandit, said on Thursday that newsmen had made the arrangement with the Homoeopathic Education and Medical Society of Haryana.lists in the state. The union’s president, Mr K.B. Pandit, said on Thursday